> But how do we distinguish real emergency scenario from fake one? You don’t. Bad actors can already pretend to be fireman doing fireman things and direct traf

> But how do we distinguish real emergency scenario from fake one? You don’t. Bad actors can already pretend to be fireman doing fireman things and direct traffic. Human drivers will also be mislead by that. What is more, if you have a high viz vest, a hard hat, and more confidence than a garden slug you can also direct trafic. Not legally mind you, but more often than not people will follow your directions. If there is a whole gaggle of fake construction people and they have cones too they can probably re-route a highway. Whatever is stopping people from causing misschief (too often) by these “powers” doesn’t seem to be different in the case of self driving cars than with human driven cars. In fact the self-driving car is more likely to retain a perfect photographic evidence of the mischief maker’s face than a regular human driver.